Re: PROV-ISSUE-191: Section 5.3.1.2 (PROV-DM as on Nov 28) [prov-dm]

Hi Satya

As indicated in my response to PROV-ISSUE-190, I don't understand what
problem there is with the term temporal constraint.

Luc

On 12/07/2011 02:05 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-191: Section 5.3.1.2 (PROV-DM as on Nov 28) [prov-dm]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/191
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> Raised by: Satya Sahoo
> On product: prov-dm
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> Hi,
> The following are my comments for Section 5.3.1.2 of the PROV-DM (as on Nov 28):
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> 5.3.1.2 Usage Record
> 1. "For any entity, the following temporal constraint holds: the generation of an entity always precedes any of its usages."
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> Comment: This is not a temporal constraint, since it only enforces a partial order between events.
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> 2. "Given an activity record identified by a, an entity record identified by e, a set of attribute-value pairs attrs, and optional time t, if assertion used(a,e,attrs) or used(a,e,attrs,t) holds, then the following temporal constraint holds: the usage of the entity represented by entity record identified by e precedes the end of activity represented by record identified by a and follows its start."
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> Comment: Similar to previous constraint, this is an event ordering constraint and not a temporal constraint. Especially for assertion used(a,e,attrs) where there is not time value explicitly associated with used.
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> Thanks.
>
> Best,
> Satya
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